Pedro Jesús Aquino Sánchez (born 13 April 1995) is a Peruvian professional
footballer
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who plays as a
defensive midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundari ...
for
Liga MX club
América and the
Peru national team.
Club career
Sporting Cristal
He made his senior league debut for
Sporting Cristal on 2 June 2013 in a
Peruvian Primera División
The Peru First Division (; ''First Division'') —known as Liga 1 Betsson for sponsorship reasons and officially as Liga 1 — is the top flight of association football in Peru. It has been referred to as Torneo Descentralizado since 1966, when ...
0–2 away loss at
Cienciano
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The club was founded in 1901 by a group of students of the ''Colegio Nacional Ciencias del Cusco'' (National S ...
.
Lobos BUAP
On 22 July 2017 Aquino made his
Liga MX debut against
Santos Laguna
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playing 76 minutes in the 2-2 draw.
Club León
He signed for Club Léon in June 2018. He made his debut on 21 July 2018 against
Tigres UANL
Club de Fútbol Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, simply known as Tigres UANL or Tigres, is a Mexican professional football club based in San Nicolás de los Garza, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León. Found ...
.
Club América
On 1 January 2021, Aquino signed for
Liga MX side
Club América on a permanent deal from
Club León
Club León Fútbol Club, also known as León, is a Mexican professional football club based in León, Guanajuato, that competes in the Liga MX, the top flight of Mexican football.
León has won the Primera División de México/Liga MX title ...
. Aquino has been a regular and reliable player for America throughout his time there.
International career
He made his debut for the
senior national team on 1 September 2016 in a 0–2 loss to
Bolivia in the
2018 World Cup qualifying round.
In May 2018, he was named in Peru’s provisional 24 man
squad for the
2018 World Cup
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in
Russia
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. Aquino started Peru’s second match of the World Cup against France, playing well and hitting the crossbar with a powerful, curving shot from long distance.
Career statistics
International
:''Statistics accurate as of match played 16 November 2021''
International goals
:''Scores and results list Peru's goal tally first.''
Honours
León
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Liga MX:
Guardianes 2020
Individual
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Liga MX All-Star:
2021
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References
External links
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Peruvian footballers
1995 births
Living people
Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Peru international footballers
Peru youth international footballers
Peru under-20 international footballers
Sporting Cristal footballers
C.F. Monterrey players
Club León footballers
Club América footballers
Peruvian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Mexico
Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
Peruvian Primera División players
Liga MX players
Footballers from Lima
Association football midfielders
Pan American Games competitors for Peru
Peruvian people of Quechua descent
21st-century Peruvian people
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